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There is an even more alarming prospect on the horizon: an alliance between authoritarian states and large, data-rich IT monopolies, bringing together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with already-developed systems of state-sponsored surveillance.
US-based IT monopolies are already tempted to compromise themselves in order to gain entrance to these vast and fast-growing markets.
There is also a growing recognition of a connection between the dominance of the platform monopolies and rising inequality.
The Internet monopolies have neither the will nor the inclination to protect society against the consequences of their actions.
In the US, regulators are not strong enough to stand up to the monopolies’ political influence.
Whereas US law enforcement focuses primarily on monopolies created by acquisition, EU law prohibits the abuse of monopoly power regardless of how it is achieved.
With economic privileges doled out in a way that blocked the emergence of independent entrepreneurs that might eventually challenge the autocrats’ control, favored firms were able to acquire virtual monopolies over entire liberalized economic sectors.
Countries that maintain state monopolies in telecommunications services are likely to fall further behind.
Mercantilists believed in an active economic role for the state – to promote exports, discourage finished imports, and establish trade monopolies that would enrich business and the crown alike.
The introduction of competition to the national monopolies in both countries would also speed the shift to renewables.
For starters, Mexico remains a country of monopolies.
The monopolies are also political.
Market reforms are critical, especially freeing telecommunications from state monopolies so that private companies are free to invest in needed physical infrastructure.
State monopolies undo what private businesses created.
Although there have been enormous improvements in most of these areas, there remains a huge agenda, particularly with regard to breaking up or regulating monopolies – public, private, commercial, trade union-based – that plague nearly every country in the region.
Instead there are “wide-spread monopolies, ubiquitous corruption, stifling state interferences, weak and contradictory laws.”
But to follow to this line of thinking, one must ignore a fundamental distinction between two kinds of monopolies: those that emerge from the free operation of the market; and those that are a result of state coercion.
Where competition is imperfect, government, not large private monopolies, is usually the reason.
To that end, we should welcome pioneering new technologies, but we should also ask tough questions about their ownership and the interests they serve, especially as new monopolies emerge.
Industrial support is usually justified on the grounds that private-sector monopolies and duopolies distort markets – though, having driven McDonnell-Douglas out of the market, Airbus and Boeing left the global market structure unchanged.
Such unions act as monopolies that offer complementary goods.
Even more poisonous is a chain of monopolies offering complementary goods.
Far from being a model of free enterprise, the pharmaceutical industry is utterly dependent on government-funded research and government-granted monopolies in the form of patents and exclusive marketing rights.
Whether it is the breakup of public monopolies, such as electricity, gas, telecommunications, and even the post office, or the replacement of military conscription by a professional military, or pension reform, France has changed much more than is commonly believed.
The US managed the transition roughly between 1880 and 1930, combining the professionalization of management with a speculative taste for new technologies – electrification, automobiles, and radio – and state tolerance of the Second Industrial Revolution’s great industrial monopolies, which invested their super-profits in scientific research.
First, he must build a national consensus capable of overcoming the powerful vested interests that oppose changes – including the dissolution of monopolies, improved market regulation, increased transparency, and tax reform – that would level the economic playing field.
His administration passed laws against child labor and granted new rights to workers, as well as reforming banking laws and challenging monopolies.
China’s leaders know that private small and medium-size enterprises with fair market access would be a far more reliable source of innovation and jobs than are large state-owned monopolies.
The practice is similar to Tudor England’s grants of royal patent monopolies, which were used to replenish the king’s coffers.
But a major obstacle to this is the existence of local rent-seeking franchises and monopolies.
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